Quick Share’s mobile data toggle is finally rolling out

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Last year, we spotted Google working to bring a mobile data toggle to Quick Share. In February, Google formally announced the feature as part of a Play Services update. Three months later, the toggle is finally rolling out to the public. On one hand, data is data, and whether we’re sending our files over USB, by Wi-Fi, or over a carrier’s cellular network, it all ends up the same in the end. But there are also lots of practical considerations that belie that kind of blanket statement — we may want to choose to download YouTube Music tracks over Wi-Fi, for instance, rather than running down our cellular data allotment. While limitations on how we move around data can be useful like that, we’d also rather the choice be ours, instead of one made for us. Right now, Google’s updating Android Quick Share to address exactly those kind of concerns. When Nearby Share became Quick Share, it lost an occasionally useful option in the process: the ability ... Read full article.